Why This Passenger's Refusal to Move Nearly Caused an Incident

Episode Description

This episode starts with Shawn and G doing what they do best: turning one joke into a full conversation. From “do-do duty time” to the World Cup, soccer culture, USA pride, and why Americans sometimes miss how big the rest of the world’s sports moments really are, the opening quickly becomes a mix of comedy, competition, and classic Cabin Pressure banter.

Then the conversation moves into serious airline territory. Shawn shares a cockpit barrier situation where a passenger refused multiple instructions to step back while the pilots were transitioning in and out of the flight deck. It leads to a real discussion about compliance, aviation security, passenger behavior, and why flight attendants do not have the luxury of “just letting it go” when safety procedures are involved.

From there, things get painfully relatable for anyone who travels. Shawn and G get into speakerphone conversations on planes, FaceTime during boarding, bad cabin etiquette, brutal heat, humidity, sideways rain, soaked shoes, airport commutes, toll roads, traffic, and the kind of vacation exhaustion that makes you need a second vacation just to recover from the first one.

Shawn also breaks down his California trip, including Newport Coast, LAX traffic, In-N-Out, Disney, the San Diego Zoo, and the moment a scooter became the smartest decision of the entire vacation. Then the episode takes a very Cabin Pressure turn into bathroom emergencies, public restroom frustration, Ohio versus California travel culture, and why not being able to find a bathroom when you need one can ruin your whole day.

G brings the airline stories back with his return to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, including QR codes, customs, security screening, the maze-like airport setup, tiny restaurants, crew logistics, and why some layovers are memorable for all the wrong reasons. The episode also covers a wild taser incident, bats in a training room, rabies shots, and the kind of travel stories that sound fake until you realize they came from real life.

Finally, Shawn and G close with the gear they actually use on the road, including travel tools, portable fans, kettles, and the crew-life items that make flying, commuting, hotels, and layovers easier. If you like unfiltered flight attendant stories, airline humor, aviation safety talk, travel chaos, and real conversations that go completely off the rails in the best way, this episode is for you.

Subscribe, leave a comment with your funniest travel experience, and share this episode with that one friend who is always late to the airport but somehow still blames TSA.

Transcript

Cold Open And Running Jokes

Shawn 0:00

A G. Did do you want to start the show? See, I knew that was coming. I knew it was coming. I knew that shit was coming. I was just gonna tell everyone how amazing of a technical person that you were. I am. And that repeating of the doo-doo.

G 0:14

Yeah, it's awesome.

Shawn 0:15

The do-do-do time.

G 0:17

You didn't say that. You couldn't do it just once. I know, but you didn't say it. But you couldn't do it once. You didn't say it once.

Shawn 0:23

You repeated it all the way through the show. Every time you got an opportunity, every freaking time you got an opportunity. Do do duty. Do do do do.

G 0:33

You know, all I gotta say is everybody out there that knows you, they're like, oh yeah. Gary, Gary's getting himself. Oh, here we go. Mr. Mr. I'm always right.

Shawn 0:44

Well, it do. I didn't say that. I if I'm not right, I was misunderstood. Okay. You might that one up? I was giving you props too, man. Tentacle guy. And you did it. And the thing is, you closed the show with it. I know it was priceless. Doo-doo-doo-time.

G 1:15

I hope everybody was laughing out there because I was.

Shawn 1:20

Do you know how many times I laugh? I was like, mother. Did it again? He did it again. You're you had me on full repeat. Every time you were like saying, I didn't say that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:31

Smart ass. I had to remind you. Yeah. You're such a smart ass. You're killing me, man.

SPEAKER_04 1:37

Oh shit.

Shawn 1:38

Anyhow. So, what's going on? Oh, that's it.

G 1:41

Just what's going on? What's going on? He can't get past this. I'm gonna go on. So here's what I gotta say something right.

World Cup Energy And Soccer Culture

G 1:51

Okay, go ahead. So, um, as you can see, USA, baby. USA. Listen, props to everybody in the team. You guys did fantastic. It was a hard game. The world loved it no matter what you did. Didn't see it. It's got you didn't watch it at all?

Shawn 2:10

No, I have you not watched any of this World Cup? No, I've been working, but I did go down to Mexico City and see all the crazy fans going into Mexico City. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna talk about that one a little bit later. But yeah, but no, I went to Mexico City. Fans are crazy right now.

G 2:23

I mean the World Cup is like so it's it's so intense. And it's funny, like, like I just got off vacation, so you know, I was like around the world in different places, and certain like it's amazing that the US either they're involved, yeah, or they're totally oblivious. They didn't know what even what's even happening. Okay, look uh the World Cup.

Shawn 2:47

It goes on forever, Sean.

G 2:49

It's world.

Shawn 2:50

I mean, it's not like it involves a whole world. I understand that. But you know, I mean, when you have finals or something, like you have the World Series and everything, I mean you're like it goes on forever. It not really. I mean, it goes on for a time. Yeah, World Cup goes on a long time.

SPEAKER_04 3:04

Playoffs and all the way to a long ass time.

Shawn 3:08

And then you get to the end of the game and it's like zero-zero.

G 3:11

Yeah. That's soccer, man. I know that's how it works. I know it. I know it was exciting. The shootout last night uh between uh Argentina and uh what was it? Um no, no, no. It wasn't Argentina, it was Switzerland and uh God, who was it? I have no idea, man. Okay, listen, the only thing Switzerland won. Oh, it was uh Switzerland and Columbia, that's what it was. And uh and Switzerland won on a shootout, shootout.

Shawn 3:38

So the only thing that I seen was the highlight was what Ronaldo is that his name? Yeah. Okay, when when beat. No, but when he had that free shot and he he he uh he he kicked it right between all those good defenders, yeah, and the one guy forgot to cover his no-nos. Yeah.

unknown 3:55

Okay, yeah.

G 3:56

Yeah, there's been a lot of that in the uh whole cut.

Shawn 3:59

Right in the no no zone, dude.

G 4:00

It's hilarious because guys get hit and you'll see them like go down, they're like a rock.

Shawn 4:05

I mean, and you know, right?

G 4:06

And they're like, hey, and the guy's like running down, and he's like trying to trying to get back, trying to get back, keep it good.

Shawn 4:14

He's like, I'm gonna keep me in coach. I'm good, I'm good. They're a little swollen right now.

G 4:21

Anyways, the World Cup is exciting. People like people should like actually in the US should pay attention more to it because it involves the entire world. Yeah, and quit being freaking Americans and think that, like, oh, we're the biggest sport. There is no sport in the world bigger than soccer.

Shawn 4:36

Yeah, but you know, um, I mean, even in America, though, soccer is becoming huge. Yeah, it's becoming very huge, like popular with the the youth, yeah, right? Oh, yeah, yeah. It's a great sport. I mean, even as a kid, I mean, Jackson, I had Jackson in soccer when he was a little kid. The beauty everybody can play it.

SPEAKER_05 4:52

Yeah.

Shawn 4:53

But you know, Jackson You know when he when he played though, Sean, I swear to God, that kid never hit a he never never kicked a goal. Yeah. He'd be running down the he'd be running down the side of the field chucking his buddy and his hair. You know, that's when Jackson had long hair. Yeah. Hairs flying through there. They didn't give a shit. All they cared about what what little sippy drink they got. Or what what little snack they were gonna get. But it was a great because they got to run up and down the field.

G 5:17

But this is the thing about soccer, like it's it, it doesn't matter what your uh economical level of your life is, and what type if you come for money or don't cover money, there's no advantage when you get on the field. No, it's you, the ball, and the and the field. Like it's like it, it's um it's an amazing sport. So it doesn't matter where you can play in this in the whole entire world, everybody can play. You better have a huge. You don't have to buy a glove, you don't have to have a bat, you don't have to have you know uniform, pads, you don't have all this equipment just to play it. That's a good story. Dude, I played soccer in high school. Yeah, like fittest I've ever been in my life. I was gonna say, man, to run down all you do for 90 minutes. I mean, the youth, the youth uh they don't do that. It's like maybe an hour, 60 minutes, 40 minutes, 30 minutes, you know, like they're they're shorter games as they like, or the game grows as you get older. But yeah, dude, you have to be in shape.

Shawn 6:09

No, I I even when we were taking uh Jackson to uh like uh universities and stuff, you go out there early in the morning, freaking soccer teams out there at I mean it's dark, and their asses are already running sprints. Yeah, that's how crazy it is.

G 6:23

The dudes that were looking for sippy cups aren't on those fields.

Shawn 6:26

Yeah. But no, no, I know, but you know, I mean, think about it now. I uh when I was watching these guys practice, I got really kind of captivated by them. Right. Because the way, I mean, you really don't know it until you're actually on the field when the kids are that good and they're sprinting down the field kicking a ball.

G 6:43

Yeah. I mean, the foot, the the dribbling and all that stuff. I mean, watch the World Cup. I encourage everybody out there, listen, there's still games going on, you know, it's the the big excitement's getting ready to happy. US is at A, is USA is out of it right now, but you know, who's in the country? Well, I mean, uh, who's left? Now you're gonna quiz me on who's left. Wait a minute, you just threw it. There's there's eight teams left. Okay. Okay. I'm not I can't quote all eight teams that are left. But I mean, it's the finals coming up, and this is like big. Today was the first break, and sort of the next day here, uh, it's gonna start up again. So by the time this episode airs, uh the finals might be over, actually. But uh yeah, dude, it's exciting, exciting stuff. But you get just to see the like amazing, like Messi right now leading goal. Look, he's right now at eight goals for the tournament as of today. So people who are watching this were like, oh, that was yesterday, whatever. But um, like you know, they have like the golden boot award, so it's like whoever makes the most goals during the World Cup, you know. He has eight. Right now, there's three other players that have seven. There wasn't like a tie, four-way tie of people players now. So, anyways, it's still going on. Now, who's whose last year is it? I one of them, right? Oh, there's lots of people last year. Like, there's different teams, people have announced like retirements and like last there's all kinds of them. Okay, I thought there was like a big name that was there's there's several big names, let's put it that way. Depends on what country you're from.

Shawn 8:10

All right, yeah. So yeah, I thought I thought there were some big names, but all right, well, let's talk some airline stuff.

Passenger Refuses Cockpit Barrier Rules

Shawn 8:16

Yeah. All right, so this week had a crazy thing happen. This guy, we we were uh getting the cockpit out out for a break, using the restroom break. And you know how we put a barrier up. Yeah, all right. This guy refused to um comply with our our request for him to step back away from this barrier. Yeah, five times. Not one time, five. And and we kept asking him to go back, go back. It got it almost literally got into a shouting match with me yelling at him, telling him to get back because he wasn't he wasn't adhering to what we were talking about.

G 8:48

Just question like was this guy like a foreign national of some sort?

Shawn 8:51

No, like no, this is just a this is just a Caucasian dude. This is a guy that had yeah, he just had a blank look on his blank look on his face. Yeah, blank look on his face. But normally people will step back right when they see that they see that barrier, they they usually know.

G 9:07

In this day and age, there's been people who fly and the general public knows that when the cockpit has to go to the bathroom, we're blocking when so they can get it and go in and out of the cockpit. Right, but five times. Yeah. Have you ever had five times? No, no. You ever had five times? I've never had five times. If they if I would have told them five times, I mean I would it would have been a yelling situation. Everybody in the entire aircraft would know what's going on because my whole military voice is coming out. Everybody okay, like they would know everybody's gonna be stopping. People are gonna be pulling out their headphones because it's gonna be so loud.

Shawn 9:44

This ain't military voice, but you know this was loud. Right. I mean, the this whole part of the cabin knew knew I was yelling at this guy. Yeah, and the guy, I mean, he it was one of those ones that he was like inching back, inching back, inching back. You won't, you won't just do what we're asking you to do. No, just no, no compliance, just everything shuts down to that moment for me.

G 10:04

Yeah, like I mean, everything shuts down, and nothing's gonna happen. I don't care like if the pilot's out or the pilots are in or whatever, nothing's happening until that guy is like way back, gone, yeah, way back.

Shawn 10:16

See, before yeah, that's what I was saying. Like, we have a distance that we're comfortable with, right? When they're in compliance, exactly. But when they're like this, no, you're going all your ass going all the way back. Way back. Yeah, I know. Yeah, it was absolutely ridiculous.

G 10:29

Yeah, those that ain't we don't play games like that.

FaceTime Fights And Plane Phone Etiquette

Shawn 10:32

No, so this week we had a couple things, and this is another thing I want to talk about with passengers too. That uh, you know, whenever you're uh on on your phones, yeah, okay, video when they're uh video um uh have their video well they're they're they're talking, FaceTime, they're FaceTiming and they're checking. Is is it is it allowed?

G 10:52

No, no, that's not allowed. Zero communications on a plane is allowed. Ever. Right. Like every airline in the back of their seat, it has a little brochure in the back. Says you cannot communicate on a phone, on a FaceTime, on video, or it says all the rules in it. You can do it. There's no airlines in the United States that don't have that rule.

Shawn 11:12

But we spent all this time having to try to explain why do we have to explain to you why you can't do something? Well, I can do it. This is this is the this is the argument. Yeah, I'm able to do it.

G 11:24

You're able to do it.

Shawn 11:26

So, wait a minute. So because you're able to do it means that you you you should be able to do it, right? Right. No, no, it says right right on the ticket, it says, Yeah, you know, I mean, all the airline. I don't think there's one airline that allows you to do that.

G 11:41

Like But it's rude though. But here but here's my thing. When we have those type of situations, we should have the power and the authority to just click it off. Yeah, shut down the internet, like literally, call the cockpit, shut down the internet, right? Click. We have a non-compliance situation here.

Shawn 12:00

But the whole thing about it with the airlines is that it it disturbs passengers, right? It there's no cabin etiquette at all. I mean, because you don't know what you're talking about.

SPEAKER_02 12:10

Well, they're on their freaking, hey Johnny, look at us, we're in flying.

G 12:14

Yeah, just stupid. I mean, just stupid conversations. Like this is not necessary, right? And it's rude. Like, I can't stand public, I can't stand speakerphone conversations in any public area.

Shawn 12:25

Yeah, period. When they board when you're bored, why do you do that? Why, why are you in in the in your seat during boarding and then you're having a conversation with your speaker?

G 12:37

I halfway get like, yes, you know, people get exciting, and that you know, but why your speaker phone though? Yeah, but this shouldn't be on a speakerphone. No, yeah.

Shawn 12:45

Well, I mean, when you're even when you're walking on board, you're on a speaker phone.

G 12:48

A lot of people though, they're like on FaceTime, and like I have I have some friends, that's the only way they communicate. They don't even talk on the phone, they only FaceTime. Like, like, I mean But nobody wants to hear their conversation. Nobody wants to hear their conversation. I know it's annoying to me as well. Like, we can be out to dinner and everything, and they're like, Oh, hey, Susie. Yeah, I know. Come on. I'm like, I know are you kidding me?

Shawn 13:10

But it it was the it was the stupid argument afterwards is if if we can do it, why are not why are we not able to?

G 13:16

Yeah, that's BS.

Shawn 13:18

Yeah, it's just a policy.

G 13:20

The reason I told you not to do it.

Shawn 13:21

Yeah, period. Yeah, well, I told him to move back and he didn't do it either. Yeah, that's a bunch of crap, too.

G 13:27

Yeah, non-compliance ends up having some results, yeah, or or repercussions.

Ohio Humidity Versus California Comfort

G 13:32

Okay, now weather, has this ship been hot and hot in Ohio the last dude. So I just came back from vacation and California perfect. Yeah. I mean, right now, mid-70s, I was on the coast, every day was perfect. I came back, I literally landed in Cleveland, and the other another party of ours landed in Indy, they text. We just entered the sun. The equator. You freaking sun, man. You're you're burning up. I'm uh I've just landed into the face of the sun. It it's been so damn hot. It is the humidity, the humidity is like kills you. It when it's when it's dry, like you know how like you go to Phoenix and you get off the plane? When you get off there and it's so hot, like hundreds of degrees, it's like literally sticking your head in the oven, right? And then here it's got that wet heat, and you're like gasping and going, ah, right, right.

Shawn 14:36

Why is it so damn hot here? That's damn Phoenix conversation, too, though. Fucking hot is hot, dude. I don't care. Dry heat. I'm telling you, dry heat is different than wet. I understand that, but the the the the the heat that we get, the only difference is your ass is sweating. Yeah, it's just we're like dripping. You're like you're sweating. Your pits are sweating. And then dry heat, like you're trying to sweat, you can't sweat. And you can't. You're just hot. Why? Because it's like an you're cooking. Yeah, it's it's an intern. That's why I said I feel like my wings are getting creepy. Yeah, it's shit. It doesn't matter. I always like that argument. When people go, Oh, yeah, but I like the Phoenix heat. Why? Because it's just hot.

G 15:16

It's just hot.

Shawn 15:17

But then you come to Ohio and it's really hot.

G 15:19

Yeah. It's kind of like um, I have this setting in my oven. One is like steam heat, uh-huh. Then there's the dry heat. That's the difference.

Shawn 15:29

It's been every damn day. And then and then they're they're like, oh, chance of rain. Yeah. Now, normally in Ohio, when they say chance of rain, we're gonna get some. We're gonna get some now. Shit just scooted right by us.

G 15:39

Dude.

Shawn 15:40

The clouds, you had the clouds, and they're like, Oh, oh, we're gonna get some. We're gonna get some. Nothing.

G 15:45

Right before I left on vacation, we had a storm came through here, and I had like popped up my uh umbrella. I've been going umbrella over my deck, the new deck, and Carol comes walking in, she's like, looks outside, and she says, Are you gonna put down that umbrella? The umbrella was up. It is like torrential rain, like sideways rain. I opened the door with the umbrella, the umbrella is like folding because it's the wind coming.

SPEAKER_04 16:08

I'm like, I'm gonna get there. Don't blow away.

G 16:11

I'm out there cranking it down. I'm like drenched. We now have to like from that point on, I had to leave out the door to go to the airport to get on a plane. I was like, I'm wet as a dog.

Shawn 16:25

Okay, at what point at what point? At what point were you calling yourself stupid?

G 16:30

Yeah, I was very stupid.

Shawn 16:31

I was like, I was there's no way, there's no way you went out there going, I'm an idiot. I'm an idiot. Yeah, right? Just wait until the shit starts.

G 16:38

I'm like, I literally I cranked it down, I ran to the door, I closed the door, I'm like dripping, my shoes are soaked, I have to now change my shoes.

Shawn 16:50

I'm walking into the airport, I'm already sweating. My pants are stuck to my legs, right? It's and it's it's like six o'clock in the morning. It's that sticky wet up here. It's horrible. I know it's horrible. It's been horrible, but you're talking about the California. Now, I will give you, I will give you the weather in California, and you're gonna talk about your time in California. I know. Yeah, I'm gonna give you the weather in California, but I ain't gonna give you much more than that. Yeah, I'm not gonna give you much more.

LA Traffic Toll Roads And Vacation Grind

G 17:16

Everything else is kind of fucked up out there.

SPEAKER_04 17:20

Man, the traffic, the traffic is horrific.

G 17:24

Okay, listen, I know you did the driving. I did the all the driving when I was out there. In fact, my nephew said he was like, I'm not driving. No shit. I'm like, no, no, no, I need some help driving. No, no, you're not driving. No, no, no. No, I can I can't drive. Carol's in the back go, I'll help you. He's like, I'm from Indiana, I can't drive here. Yeah, no shit. It was the first time he had like been in California, like that. LA driving is crazy. Because we were like all over the place. We went through through downtown LA. We went to Dodgers Stadium, which is right downtown. We went to Anaheim, we went down to San Diego. I was all over Southern California that this last 10 minutes.

Shawn 18:00

It's the only it's the only place that on Waze that you could be three exits away, and Waves says you're an hour and 30 minutes from your destination.

G 18:08

It's so crazy. And like each hour by hour, the like it will shift on like how much long it's gonna take you. Yeah, and you know it's all because of traffic. Yeah, yeah, dude. I was hitting every toll road I could hit there just to get through quicker. Did you have like did you just does it scan? Did you get that scanning? No, no, no. So what they do is like we were like, I got there, and the first day we had to go, so I landed in San Diego. We were staying in Newport Coast, okay, which is up by south of LA, right? And then we had to pick up, we had to go to the hotel, and then we had to drop our stuff and go to the LA airport and pick up our other party that was coming in off in LA. So I had to go into the traffic into the airport. Yeah, at the airport. So it was like bumper to bumper. Like we're stuck, like classic, dude. Any movie you see with LA bumper to bumper traffic, that was me. Now, who are they coming in on? Yeah, uh, I don't know. I think they came in on Southwest or something like that. But it, I mean, it didn't matter who they came in on. Well, it does whenever you're coming in that airport, because it's LA, right? Yeah, yeah. Because you got to know the first one, and I got to get out of here.

Shawn 19:16

That's what I said. You gotta know which little through to go. Because if not, you're going down the international side, your ass will be like 30 minutes just to come around. Watch your hand, man. You're blocking my pretty face.

SPEAKER_04 19:29

Anyhow, so your face. We got to the airport.

G 19:37

I should have like we killed time, stop it. We got to the airport, and uh I'm like, we gotta kill some time. I'm like, we gotta find something to do. Where'd we go? In and out. You went to in and out, Bird? Right there by the airport, you know, right outside the airport? You know the one. Yeah, you've been there. I know. And so we hit that, and my uh niece and nephew, all my neat little great nieces, they were like, This is crazy. Like, you know, like they had that line going down the street. Like still, I mean it was like that was been there forever, right? Yeah, yeah. It was just like packed, like crazy. And we're like, is this the uh is this like the busy time? She's like, cashier's like, no, this isn't busy.

unknown 20:17

No.

G 20:19

No, this is the express lane. She goes, it's busy when our line goes out the door and wraps around the building. That's busy.

unknown 20:26

I'm like, what?

G 20:27

And think how long that damn thing's been there. Dude, that one's been there for it. But back to that traffic thing, uh, the toll road. Um, we went there and I was like, the toll road, they had like this toll road, and it was like boom, boom, people are like zoom, zoom, zoom, right in the middle. I'm like, is there any way we could pay for that? Like, how do we get that and all this stuff? I literally, by the time I got back that night, the first day, I called the rental car place, and I'm like, do we can we use the tolls? Oh, yeah, you can use it with the tolls. They just bill you, they they just like, you know, because it's everything's done for cameras. Yeah, so like we'll get a bill. We're still like, we're like, I don't know how many thousands of dollars this bill's gonna be, but we use a lot of tolls. And I'm telling you right now, every penny was worth it without sitting in that stupid traffic. It was crazy. But we took toll everywhere we could go. But man, we we had some fun on our uh vacation. We had Reagan Library, went to two baseball games, Anaheim, we went to San Diego, see the potteries play. We went to the San Diego Zoo, we went out to Catalina Island where uh Carol and I got married. That was super cool.

Shawn 21:38

So, so who and who in the hell put all that together?

G 21:41

Who do you think?

Shawn 21:42

Not you. Who do you think? Not you, I think it was Carol. Carol, Carol had all that. Carol is like the female Carte Griswold. She's like the female Cart Griswold. There's no everything but Wally World.

G 21:55

So every night when we get back, like normally on a vacation, we'll get back and like. We'll get there, you know, have dinner, we'll come back to the hotel, we'll play some games, go to bed, right? No, not one day did we play games because every night we got back, all the kids were like, even the kids. That was you.

SPEAKER_04 22:18

I was like, I was like, give me a move. Can somebody give me some Tylenol, please? I need a broken so anybody got a needle I can check my knee. I am in so much pain right now.

G 22:30

Like it was so dude, it was it was crazy. But uh yeah, the the whole entire trip was uh crazy.

Shawn 22:38

But what about the zoo?

G 22:40

The zoo was the zoo was cool, but here's the thing, San Diego Zoo.

Shawn 22:44

If you have you been there, no, that's why I was waiting for you to talk about it.

G 22:47

The zoo is like um huge, and it's on a hill. Yeah, and here's the thing we did the zoo probably like I think five days into our vacation. And we had done Disney, and when we did Disney, it was like from 8 a.m. to 12 midnight. Like we did when we do a park, like the part we don't get every ounce of park out of it. It is crazy. So we have to do it. I'm thinking of you for a minute, like we're like my knees are like fired up. You know, I have one replaced knee and one knee, the knee's replacement. Okay, and so I'm like, I I get to the zoo and we take our uh niece and nephew said, As soon as you get there, jump on the bus. So I get on the bus and they do this little bus tour around a thing, and you're like, all of a sudden you're like going downhill, like I mean steep downhill. Then you're going back up this hill, and then you're going back down the hill, then you go back up the hill, and then they let you off, and they're like, it gives you over all of the zoo. And I'm like, nope, get me a scooter, please. I need a scooter. My ass was on a scooter.

SPEAKER_04 23:55

I was like, I was like a little umbrella horn. Get out of my way.

G 24:02

Old dude coming by. You have a little umbrella? Oh, it had like a like a canopy thing. I know you had to use it. Dude, I had it all. It was hot as shit.

unknown 24:13

Hell yeah, I used it.

G 24:14

I was surprised you didn't hook it up your fan in it. I had the little basket, everybody was throwing it. Did you put your fan in there? I didn't have I didn't have my fan that'd have been sweet. I would have been sweet. That'd have been sweet, right? You had your fan blow. I didn't think that far in advance because I didn't think I was gonna be using a scooter, but dude, this saved my ass. It did.

Shawn 24:31

I would have been the kids right with you?

G 24:34

Um, no, no, no. They wouldn't, you couldn't get people on them. Like you can put two people on them and all the stuff. But yeah, so like I had to like I'm scootering all over. So then that limited me, like, you know, have they have like this uh what's it those sky cars that go across the park? You know those little baskets, whatever. I'm so they wanted to get on a sky car and they want to like they were like, let's take the sky car across the zoo. It's in the back, we'll we'll go from the back and we'll come back to the front in the zoo, right? And I'm like, I can't get my my can't go. So now I have to meet them on the other side. So I'm going through the zoo, going down the hill, speed racing. Like like the slowest little thing is like going like two miles per hour down the hill. Then I get to button, I get down in this, like the bottom of the hill, and I see where I gotta be, which is way up on top of this hill, and I see the sky cars going across. And I'm like, how do I get there? I stop and ask this like girl. She's like, she goes, There's an elevator over there. You gotta take that up, but take the very bridge over. So here I am up the elevator, here I go, scooting across the bridge. Dude, dude, it worked, dude. It saved my ass. I'm serious. My knee would have been wrecked. I would have literally it would have like killed the whole vacation because I was as I'm in the hospital.

Shawn 25:48

Was it as fun going back and trying to find your way with the little scooter?

G 25:51

I kept like I had a map in my in the little basket, and I pull out the map, stop, and we're like, okay, where now am I? You're definitely old. What am I seeing? There's a girl over here.

Shawn 26:01

You're like, here's a panzing. Somebody's got a video on of you right now. It's gonna be like a YouTube video. If people would have known, they would have been like, What's his old ass?

G 26:13

There goes Sean. Sean G Show.

Shawn 26:15

Watch his old ass on the scooter. That's you.

G 26:19

It was freaking crazy. But here's the thing, man. So we're doing all this traveling, and this just happened.

Bathroom Emergencies And Restroom Access

G 26:27

Um, dude, have you ever been in a situation where you have a bathroom emergency? We're gonna talk about your bowel movements.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

No, no, no, no, it's not mine.

G 26:37

I'm just saying, have you been in a situation? Yeah, because you gotta run.

Shawn 26:41

Oh, hell yeah, you gotta run. Because all of a sudden, you got warnings, right? Yeah. You got a warning. Yeah, like all everybody at listen to it. You got the cramping starts. Yeah. Like you're like gurgle, you get a gurgle, right? There's like and then like you get that like gas feel. Right? Yeah.

G 26:54

Okay, so it's coming today. I'm traveling in like today. We came back from Indiana again, okay, and we're rolling in, and I stop. I'm like, pull over to rest stop. Boom. So Carol has this aversion. How many times have you ever seen Carol come out of the cockpit and go to the bathroom? Never in your life.

Shawn 27:14

Never, never in your life, she's a camel, right? She's a camel. I said that I've said that about Carol for years. She's a flipping camel.

G 27:22

She has an aversion to this thing.

Shawn 27:23

And she drinks that big ass, she brings that.

G 27:25

She's a big old man dew and all that. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Huge mountain dew. So, but she has a little routine and all that stuff, anyways. So I stop at a restroom and now I get back in a car. And Carol, I'm like, you need to use the restroom? Because she's like, I'm thinking I have cramping them, like, you should go to the restroom. No, no, no. Dude, turned into a crazy ass bathroom emergency. But it reminded me, like, like how many times have people like we've I've had brothers.

Shawn 27:53

She doesn't have it. I don't know. She had problems?

G 27:55

I don't know, but she was like literally, we like had to pull it out. Was this recently? Got to a hotel. She ran into the hotel because she was like, she has these bathroom reversions, like she always was like crazy about public bathrooms. But I have dude, I had the same thing happen to me. I went fishing down in the Everglades. We're coming out, like I'm fishing, I'm with Arthur. Right. I'm like, I we're about maybe 15 minutes out. I'm like, dude, I gotta go to the bathroom. He's like, I go, can you speed it up? He's like, really? I go, no. This is like emergency bathroom. Like, I need to get to the bathroom quick. Okay. So he's got the boat and he's pushing, and like, we're like coming into, you know, there's a no-wake area, right? Yeah. He starts flying through the no wake area. He's flying through.

SPEAKER_02 28:45

People are like honking at him, beep, beep, beep, slow down, slow down. He's on the boat. I got a bathroom emergency. I got a bathroom emergency.

G 28:55

We come into we come into the like uh little club harbor, right? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:01

Arthur, slow down, slow down. I got a bathroom emergency, I got a bathroom.

G 29:06

And so he comes zooming in, he like boom, right over to the dock. He was a pro with his boat. Okay, boom, right into the dock. I literally leap off, run to the bathroom, like the worst. I mean, being in a situation where you have no bathroom to get to. I know.

Shawn 29:25

Everybody everybody's listening, it's been there. I mean, everybody. Everybody's been there, man. You're running, you're running for the toilet.

G 29:32

Anytime you're in that situation.

Shawn 29:33

But they got that, they got that bacteria going around right now. That one that um what it starts with a C. Steven's got it. Really? Yeah, what it's it's actually explosive diarrhea. Oh, God. I mean, and and you have to go get you have to get an antibiotic. It's bad. I mean, this is covering this is covering like a bunch of states. Yeah. And they said because of the war window. Remember, I was just talking about travelers' diarrhea. Yeah, but this is from people I I think it's from like not washing hands. Oh, yeah. And then, you know, I mean, um, I've and it was like bacteria, and they've said in uh like a lot of vegetables and stuff like that.

G 30:08

Yeah.

Shawn 30:09

Crazy.

G 30:10

That's what I'm talking about. When you like that's what I was talking about last episode. We're talking about that travelers, like that might be part of the stuff that's going around, like, but literally, it ticks me off. Does it tick you off when you can't go into a restaurant? Like, and then use a restroom? What do you mean? Like, we were out in California. I'm walking around Balbone I island, and it's like this like 15-block strip, okay? Yeah, all these little shops, and all of a sudden I'm like, I gotta take a piss. And then I'm looking around and I ask a people a person in the ice cream shop. I'm like, hey, um, where's it where's the closest restroom? She's like, Oh, uh, at the end of the street at the fire station. Yeah. I'm like, that's like 15 blocks away. Yeah, that's our closest one. Yeah. And not one restaurant there will let you. They have signs everywhere, not a public restroom. Patrons only. Have to be like, I literally.

Shawn 31:06

So dude, listen, what's bullshit? One of the things I hate about Los Angeles, too, is that you go into some of these restaurants. I mean, this was years ago, and I know they still have it.

SPEAKER_05 31:15

Yeah.

Shawn 31:15

But if you don't if say that you're just going and you decide, well, I don't want to eat. Right. They charge you for the seat. Oh, yeah.

unknown 31:23

Yep.

Shawn 31:23

They charge you a minimum. Oh, yeah. I I was eating with these people, and and I didn't want to eat.

G 31:29

Right. They charge you a minimum to do that.

Shawn 31:31

They're like, oh, we have to charge you a minimum. For what? For sitting there. Sitting in the seat. $50.

G 31:39

Oh, geez. Yep. To just sit in the LA. That's so LA. But here's my thing. Give me a sale. The Balboa Island that I was at. Like, here is a tourist area. This is a they want tourists to walk up and down the strips. All the only thing on the strips is this shops, food, and drink. Right. And nobody's going to let you use the bathroom. In Ohio, they'll let you use a bathroom. In Ohio, you go big. Come on. You go big. Signs up there. Oh, you have to be a patron. Like, you can go anywhere.

Shawn 32:13

That's why I I will deal with the damn heat. I will deal with the heat. Because my ass tomorrow morning will be driving straight to the airport looking at a few deer, but that's it.

SPEAKER_04 32:23

Dude.

Shawn 32:24

And I don't have to I don't have to worry about any of those toll roads either. Yeah. Exactly. A lot of benefits, Ohio thing. How many do we have here in Ohio? One toll road. We have an express one. One? Right?

G 32:38

Yeah. Oh, dude. Anyways, the whole the whole uh vacation was awesome, everything. But just like the experiences of like going and traveling and all that stuff is just, whoo, it's exhausting. I need a vacation from the vacation.

Shawn 32:51

Okay, I've got I've got a better one for you.

Honduras Layover Stress And QR Codes

Shawn 32:54

So uh letters SAP. Does that mean anything to you? S A P S SAP, no? SAP SAP didn't mean anything to me either when I picked up this trip.

G 33:03

Yeah?

Shawn 33:03

Mm-hmm. What is what's the one place I said I wasn't ever gonna go back to? Um Honduras. Why, Sean?

G 33:14

Because it's not safe.

Shawn 33:16

It's not safe. Yeah, it's because it's where your ass took me a long time ago. And it was a murder capital world. The good news, the good news is it's no longer the murder capital of the world. Yeah, so the cooled down. Well, it's like number five or six. But the reason is, Sean, is because they they have all these super max prisons now. Oh, cool. So they have all those cartel members in the prison. There you go, cool. So now it's like number five or number six. But long story short, I picked up this trip and you went to San Pedro Sula. I'm like, son of Bob, you gotta be kidding me. I'm like, San Pedro Sula.

G 33:55

I got your text.

Shawn 33:56

It was like snake pushing going back to New York. Like, you're doing what? Where? Why? Return to San Pedro Sula. That was me. The return, and you know, and the funny thing about it was the funny thing you guys don't know, but I sent him a bunch of these pictures. Yeah. And I'm like, hey, look, not a lot's changed. I'm back in our old kicking ground. So I'm taking pictures as we're driving. Now, okay, first of all, let's let's go back to the getting into San Pedro Sula.

G 34:24

Yeah.

Shawn 34:25

So with with there, you have to first do a QR code. Oh, you oh, going in there? Gotta do a damn QR code, questionnaire QR code. Okay. Okay. To get in.

G 34:35

Right.

Shawn 34:36

So you So the crew had to do that? Yeah, you got to scan to get in there. Then you got to go find your freaking hotel through all that shit with the crew.

G 34:46

That's people always trying to exchange your money too, still?

Shawn 34:49

That's crazy as hell, first of all, okay. Then then you go you go find uh your van and then the drive, as you can see. I gave you I gave you a play-by-play on the drive. You'll have to he'll have to post a few of the pictures on there. That was that was funny. Got to the hotel. Hotel has a wall, looks like a prison wall.

G 35:09

Oh, geez.

Shawn 35:09

Now the hotel was nice. Yeah. It was the Hilton Princess, but pulling in, Spider-Man was down on the road reaching into a bag, selling can handfuls of candy. Now we went in the hotel. We went in the hotel. I'm like, so what's you remember to go out to eat? No, but I'm like, okay, first question is this what's safe to go see around here? And they're like, nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

G 35:36

Nothing safe.

Shawn 35:37

Mm-mm. No, they said just stay in the hotel. Yeah. What's wrong with that? Did they give you a deal? The hotel was nice. Yeah, good. The hotel, no, no, I actually the Hilton Princess was nice. But then coming out, they gave you a nice little little sandwich thing coming out, which is cool. The hotel is really nice. People are really nice down there. But um going out, you had to do that damn QR code again. Again. Now, this is the funny part when you have a lot of U.S. crews that don't know that, right at that security point, there's a lot of flight attendants. They're like, son of a doing this damn questionnaire thing to get this stupid ass QR code to go back through. So you have to go back in there, give them the QR code again, go through security. Now, they got that shit turned up so high, Sean, that belts got to come off. Everything's got to come off to go through the the screening point. You get through the screening point, then you get back onto the plane, and you gotta go through U.S. Customs.

G 36:36

Oh, jeez.

Shawn 36:38

Coming back in. Yeah.

G 36:39

Right.

Shawn 36:40

I'm not going back, Sean. Yeah. I'm not going back. You better watch what you're picking up. SAP. You know the City Code now. Son of a pup. Son of a pup. I'm not going, man. I'm not going, man. I tell you, but I did fly, I did fly with a phenomenal flight attendant. Her name was Lexi. She's she just was coming off probation. All right. I had to give her a little bit of a shout-out because she was actually phenomenal. Okay. Great, great flight attendant. Lexi did a great job. Cool. Now, going down, going down to um Mexico City, as I was telling you. Right. Because I did Mexico City and I did Honduras.

G 37:14

Oh. And then the World Cup was going on.

Shawn 37:16

Okay. Yeah. Okay. Have you seen the Mexico City airport yet?

G 37:19

No.

Shawn 37:20

So they revamped that whole airport. I stay away from that area of the world.

G 37:23

I know, I know, whatever. But the rest of us have some.

Shawn 37:25

I'm American.

G 37:26

Yeah. And they um don't like us so much now. No, they don't.

Shawn 37:29

No, they don't. But it, you know, uh Rich went for a run. Oh, geez. In Mexico City. In Mexico City. In Mexico City, he goes, I ran straight down that road and then straight back because they told me that it wasn't safe. I'm like, how are you going out? Why would you even think about going out? Yeah. Exactly. No, but he goes out. But anyway, they they redid that airport. If you haven't been there, damn. I mean, now you were talking about.

G 37:57

There was just a flight attendant that got like taken down there recently. Not too long ago.

Shawn 38:03

Just getting to the damn hotel itself. Getting to the hotel itself. You got to go through all this, and it's like this little bitty maze area to get to the hotel.

G 38:12

Did you feel like you're going to be ambushed or something?

Shawn 38:15

I felt like, you know, I felt like Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz because it was like follow the yellow brick road, you know what I mean? Well, that's how it was because all their little shops, they have all these little shops. The restaurant, Sean, okay. Do you know remember when we were in Honduras? Yeah. And we had that one table.

G 38:31

Yeah.

Shawn 38:32

And we sat at that one restaurant with one table. And I took a picture of a restaurant with the same kind of table we sat at. Oh, yeah. Okay. As you're going through the airport, all these little hotels, all these little restaurants have a maximum of two tables.

unknown 38:46

Oh, Jesus.

Shawn 38:47

They're many restaurants. And and I mean, it's all the way through the airport. It's actually pretty cool. But Mexico City was actually pretty cool. Now, the thing is similar about Mexico City and Honduras on those flights, those people don't, they don't, they don't pay attention. Dude, they don't pay attention at all. Plane lands and their ass is up. Yep. On, we're not even taxiing. Yeah. On the runway. As soon as you hit. On the runway.

G 39:11

People jumping up, trying to get there.

Shawn 39:13

Getting in the damn overhead band. The bus is stopping. We gotta get off. They don't understand English, right? They don't understand English. They're just getting, they're taking their shit and getting off that damn plane.

G 39:22

Oh, geez.

Shawn 39:23

So that was my fun. SAP, man. Yeah. SAP. Return. Can't wait to do it again. Return to return to San Pedro Sula.

G 39:32

Yeah. You know what SAP stands for for me? Sean ain't playing.

Shawn 39:41

That would work too. Right? That'll work too. All right, let's go around the globe.

Taser Video Empire State Stunt Bat Bite

Shawn 39:45

Around the globe. I I had to show you that one that that guy got tased in the face.

SPEAKER_04 39:49

Dude, that was insane. You can't tase him in the body.

G 39:55

Listen, I was like, I uh the dude just like he was like, he just complaining. The guy just was like, boom, right. Point blank. I mean, like that close. Point blank right in the face. I did not see a picture of what like the what the guy looked like. Like they should have showed a picture of like how the guy the injury they got or whatever. But oh, he was he was down on the ground. Those darts had to go into your cheekbones. Dude, they were so close. I mean, you might as well just shot a game shot him in the face with a gun. Imagine getting getting could you imagine the electricity in your head? Oh, dude, the whole the whole thing was so stupid. Because the guy's like whatever he's doing, he's yelling or whatever, and they're telling him stop, whatever, blah, blah, blah. And he's behind a wall, anyways. So I'm like, what's the big deal? No threat. And the guy, no threat. No. And the guy's just like get out of my face. Bam. It was horrible. And then you see the security guard in cuffs. Yeah, exactly. They're arresting his as they should have. Yeah, exactly. Like, that's some stupid stuff. That was stupid. That was some punk ass shit. Yeah, it was.

Shawn 40:56

As far as I'll tell you, I'll tell you another crazy ass thing. Is that couple that climbed the Empire State Building? What was that?

G 41:05

Dude. Arrested. That was them getting arrested. They they as soon as they got off.

Shawn 41:11

Yeah, their whole thing was they they they hung a banner apiece, shared kisses, and they proposed marriage. Could have done it a little different.

G 41:21

Dude, how can you are do you get married in prison? You can, I guess.

Shawn 41:27

Yeah. Not them because they're man and woman, they're going to different different prisons. They'll have different different marriages. Do they even allow FaceTime or anything like that?

G 41:34

I don't know. I don't know. Dumb. Stupid. That was stupid. Major stupid. I saw it in Carol. Carol was like, did you see the people, though? Climbing the Empire State Building? I'm like, that's stupid. Got a lot of coverage. Yeah. Dude. I'll do our podcast. We're not getting arrested.

Shawn 41:54

Alright, man. Last one. Pilot was on an overnight.

G 41:58

Yeah.

Shawn 41:59

Alright. His room was swarmed with bats. Bats? In his room? Yeah. Actually, no, he was down there for training.

G 42:07

Not no, he was in training. He was in training and they swarmed with bats in his room. Yeah. Like they just started coming out at events or something? What happened?

Shawn 42:15

They came through a hole in the AC vent. Oh, dude. And and he got bit. He got bit? What type of bats were these, first of all? I don't know. Vampire? No. I have no idea what kind of bat they were. Oh seriously. Fruit bats, I don't know. No. Have you seen a fruit bat? I've seen a fruit bat on the bat.

G 42:34

Have you seen a bat like the bat we had? They were little bitty bats. Yeah, the little bitty bats we have here in Ohio, like little barn bats and some of those little things. Those things are like little tiny things. A fruit bat bigger than like twice as big.

Shawn 42:45

If that ass got through a hole in the vent, it wasn't a big bat.

G 42:48

If fruit bat bit you, which they probably wouldn't, because you don't look like a piece of fruit.

Shawn 42:52

Yeah.

G 42:53

I mean, you're gonna get bit.

Shawn 42:55

Because those some bitches are big. Well, this dude got bit. Wow. And uh and he went to the animal control. Animal control said that bats in that area tested for rabies. Oh, great. So he said he had this $100,000 medical bill for rabies. Now, what that? In what country was this? In here in the United States. Now, what okay, seriously? Now that's that's the one I was calling kind of bullshit, right?

G 43:18

That's $100,000 worth of medical bills. I mean, yes, it could probably be $100,000, but he has insurance. He's a pilot, right? Yeah, he's got insurance. If he's working for American era and a United States American treatment, rabies treatment, $100,000?

Shawn 43:36

Oh, yeah, I'm sure. You think so? I don't know. Dude, I don't know.

G 43:39

That's a shitload of rabies treatment. Dude, I don't want to do them. Remember, like when we were little, rabies trip treatment. Shots in the stomach. Yeah, they were like, you're gonna get 80. I know because my my shots in your stomach and all that stuff.

Shawn 43:53

No, my brother Alan had to have them. Yeah, he had them. It was like eight shots, though, right? No, it was like it was like sets of 20 shots. He had he had like 80 shots. Oh, it was sets of 20. Supposedly super, super painful.

G 44:06

Yeah, yeah. But now I think modern day, it's not that you don't have that many shots. It's still, I think, in your belly, but I don't know. Google that shit.

Shawn 44:19

I don't know. I don't ever want to know. You know something that you don't

Travel Gear Merch And Host Favorites

Shawn 44:23

have to Google? What's that? Our merchandise. Merchandise. Hell no, dude.

G 44:27

You look at it for our merchandise right now. I know you guys need to go and check out our merchandise. Go on our website, cabin pressure with sean and g.com and check out the gear we use.

Shawn 44:38

Yep.

G 44:39

Right?

Shawn 44:39

I'm telling you, man, I that my my kettle, I'll say it all the time. I take my kettle with me all the time. Yeah, all the time.

G 44:45

Dude, I show everybody that kettle right now. Right now, this season, fan season. Yeah. That portable fan with the clip on. I'm telling you right now, anybody that's out there has like, I use it in my golf cart, I use it at work. Yeah. I like that thing's so amazing. I mean, it's a little, it's a little size, you know, big size. Right. But right now you need a big size. Dude, I tell you what. Those little hand ones just.

Shawn 45:08

I'm just telling you, that the instant coffee, that instant Starbucks with that kettle, shoot. That thing's with me all the freaking time. Love that thing. All right, let's get

Quote Final Laughs And Goodbye

Shawn 45:17

out of here. Inspirational quote. I love this one. Don't take life too serious. You'll never get out of it alive. Never. Shit. Where none of us are. Nope. Don't want to, right? We got a beginning. We got an end. Hell yeah. The ending is now. And no more. Unfortunately, we're closer to the end than the beginning. And no more doo-doo. No, no, no more doo-doo. No more doo-doo. Awesome. All right, guys. You guys have a great week. Bye. See ya. Do see you next.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

Bye.

G 45:50

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